Yeah, it was a good time, got some pics of the ‘Corsair on a Stick’ at the airport (it REALLY needs to come down and be restored)….lots of celebrities in the audience, too…lots of Black Sheep and other Corsair pilots….Victoria Vought and family, granddaughter of Chance Vought….spent a good deal of time talking with Peter Guyton, son of Boone Guyton, Vought chief test pilot, he was working for Fuji cameras and photographingthe old war vets and then presenting them with prints of themselves printed right on site….Steve Tesla, grandson of the other Vought test pilot Lyman Bullard was there too, as was one of the sons of Igor Sikorsky (forget his name)…the old hangars are holding up well and being used by Atlantic Aviation, the field FBO and it was fun to wander the hangars….the factory, overlooking the airport from across the street was closed and has been for years, was gonna try to weasel my way in but there was so much else going on I never got around to it….they used to build Tank engines in there and Helicopter engines after Vought abandoned it, but apparently it has been dormant and empty for several years…Got my first three rolls of film back from the air to air mission on sunday and have some useable if not GREAT stuff, but happy with it from where I was shooting (out of the nose of the B-25) which offered limited opportunities of the Corsairs trailing behind us…but GREAT views of Long Island sound and the countryside..
More on sunday….
Mark
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